README.md

Metaheuristic Optimization Using Population-Based Simulated Annealing

There are three (almost identical) versions, one in Python and two in C++:

• Readme for the Python version.

• Readme for the C++ versions (one using the Eigen library for linear algebra and the other using plain vanilla C++).

References

• Wikipedia, "Simulated Annealing".
• Kirkpatrick et al., 1983, "Optimization by Simulated Annealing", JSTOR.
• Jamil and Yang, 2013, "A Literature Survey of Benchmark Functions For Global Optimization Problems", arVix.
• Eigen template library for linear algebra.